Abir Mukherjee

Thu 23 Aug 15:30 - 16:30

Writers' Retreat

£8.00, £6.00

Resistance and the Raj

Sam Wyndham and ‘Surrender-not’ Banerjee are the heroes of Abir Mukherjee’s beguiling crime series set in 1920s Calcutta. Following the success of A Rising Man and A Necessary Evil, Mukherjee returns with Smoke and Ashes in which a murder case unfolds during Gandhi’s non-cooperation movement. A powerful evocation of India during its fight for independence.

Look, Listen & Read

This week, as part of a special, year-long project commemorating the 70th anniversary of Indian independence and partition, novelist Abir Mukherjee and poet Nalini Paul have travelled to Kolkata to work with two India-based authors, poet Sampurna Chattar…